3In the original 1977 Star Wars, Peter Cushing played evil Grand Moff Tarkin, commander of the Death Star and 'boss' of Darth Vader. In the new Star Wars spin-off Rogue One, which is due to be released late next year. Cushing, who died of prostate cancer aged 81, will be painstakingly brought back to life using the latest Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) techniques.

Daily Mail

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 23, 2015 06:16 AM (kdS6q)

4In the original 1977 Star Wars, Peter Cushing played evil Grand Moff Tarkin, commander of the Death Star and 'boss' of Darth Vader. In the new Star Wars spin-off Rogue One, which is due to be released late next year. Cushing, who died of prostate cancer aged 81, will be painstakingly brought back to life using the latest Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) techniques.

One day somebody will raise the poor bastard from the dead for a Star Wars cameo.

As to Peter Cushing, I think this kind of thing may not bode well for the Screen Actors Guild. Then again, something like 97% of its members are consistently unemployed in that profession most of the time anyway.

8Grand Moff Tarkin. Is that like some sort of, for lack of a better word, "homage" to the Grand Mufti? Episode 1's flying, hook-nosed, Yiddish-accented money-grubbing slave trader would seem to indicate it. Although Tarkin is one of the bad guys.

9The Kentucky GOPs central committee voted Saturday to adopt a presidential caucus system next year, clearing the way Republican Sen. Rand Paul to run for president and reelection at the same time.

Paul has pledged to pick up the tab for holding the caucuses, which could run $500,000 or more. The motion to adopt a caucus system was approved on the condition that Paul transfer $250,000 to a state GOP account next month.

Switching to a caucus system would not allow Paul to run for president and for reelection at the same time in the general election.

Politico

So Paul is just running for -- giggles. And blowing millions in donor cash in the process.

Big money keeps unserious dopes like Paul in these races way too long..

And wasn't Trump leading by about the same margins in 2011 at this point?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2015 06:37 AM (UpGcq)

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9 So Paul is just running for -- giggles. And blowing millions in donor cash in the process.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 23, 2015 06:23 AM (kdS6q)

I've been done with Luap the Lesser for quite a while. Supporting Yertle McCoscksickle was bad enough, but then blaming America for the creation of ISIS was just the bitter end.

And now that Walker is going "hummina, hummina, hummina," on the cut and dry issue of birthright citizenship, he is now officially gone from my boat.

That said, I really would like to start seeing the stooge candidates like Lindsay, Itch-Kase, Krispy Kreosote and Phleb Bush fall away. At least 3 will be in all the way and if Trump is gone, they GOP-e will try and pull some sort of phony rule change shit at the convention.

I have no doubt that they are plotting even now to fuck with the primaries. This is one reason why Trump's presence is rather helpful.

Right now, the primaries are a circus. I have finally accepted our demise. We have turned ourselves into a eunuch.

Posted by: Infidel at August 23, 2015 06:43 AM (gUJup)

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I read that Miss Lindsey does not believe in "Forced" deportation? What the fuck, does that jackass seriously think "Voluntary" deportation is the answer

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2015 06:45 AM (mGlyb)

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Cut the welfare, food stamps, free medical and school, punish the employers with hefty fines, they will self deport.

Hey, here is an idea. Enforce the laws we have now.

Posted by: Infidel at August 23, 2015 06:49 AM (gUJup)

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15 I read that Miss Lindsey does not believe in "Forced" deportation? What the fuck, does that jackass seriously think "Voluntary" deportation is the answer
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2015 06:45 AM (mGlyb)

Por favor, vaya the fuck out? I was going to write something snarky about stupidity but I think I've just come to the realization that the more these people either lie or try to triangulate/obfuscate or take the "splunge" position, they wind up sounding dumb as a box of rocks.

Same holds true of the Democrats, when they mumble and fumble like Pelosi and Wassershit.

This is why Trump and to a lesser extent Cruz are appealing. They give it to you straight up, good and hard. Speaking with conviction what you believe gets your attention mighty fast.

You will disincentivize those wanting to come here and really force those that are here to get out.

That said, my answer these days to leftists is, "okay, they're coming here and want to stay here. Why? could it be that their own countries are failed states? Isn't it cruel and unjust that they should have to uproot themselves and start over in a foreign country; one that is racist/sexist/misgynistiic/Islamophobic/homophobic too? How about we go down there, arm the "dreamers" to the teeth and use them as our army to annex their countries, remove their leaders, change their poetical system and fundamentally transform them so that they don't have to leave?"

27A charity fun run that invited men to dress up as women is being investigated by police after a transgender charity claimed the dress code constituted a hate crime.

Officers were asked to look into the 'Dames on the Run' race - where men run dressed as women to raise funds for a children's hospice - by a transsexual support group.

Chrysalis Transsexual Support Groups say the five kilometre run, organised by Derian House Children's Hospice, in Chorley, Lancashire, is "dehumanising". They are now attempting to stop the run, due to take place in October, which raises money to support the hospice that looks after sick and terminally ill children.

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Can't remember where, but I was reading a piece the other day that opined this Iran deal will probably escalate troubles in the Middle East rather than making "peace".. with Iran stepping up support for Hezbollah in its proxy war on Israel.

Also.. I have to wonder, though, given that the Russkies are now going to sell the S300 surface to air missile system, if Israel will be forced to bomb the shit out of all of Iran's known nuclear facilities before those missiles are in place.

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A charity fun run that invited men to dress up as women is being investigated by police after a transgender charity claimed the dress code constituted a hate crime.

Officers were asked to look into the 'Dames on the Run' race - where men run dressed as women to raise funds for a children's hospice - by a transsexual support group.

Chrysalis Transsexual Support Groups say the five kilometre run, organised by Derian House Children's Hospice, in Chorley, Lancashire, is "dehumanising". They are now attempting to stop the run, due to take place in October, which raises money to support the hospice that looks after sick and terminally ill children.

And of course they are going after "Ladies Nights" at Bars and Restaurants also right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2015 07:00 AM (z0Oqu)

32I have no doubt that they are plotting even now to
fuck with the primaries. This is one reason why Trump's presence is
rather helpful.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2015 06:38 AM

Wouldn't surprise me if the wannabe Preezys believe the dreck the Elite Republican Consultant Top. Men. are pushing about an impending Trump flameout, and are setting themselves up to pick up the pieces and Ride to Victory.

I know elections past have been full of subpar candidates who jump in with high hopes and not much else, but it seems '16 is shaping up to be remembered for a bumper crop of pathetic losers. On both sides, I might add.

Luap II is sort of a Republican Ralph Nader, a relentless whiny voice that should have been sent pasture-ward months and months ago. Krispy, Kasich and Jeb! ought to be following him out the door.

Looks to me as if the GOPe isn't running against Shrillery, teh Bernster or Biden, but is running against Trump. Fine with me, as teh Donald is easier to vote for than the pathetic Democrats.

Time to dust off Zombie Sam Yorty!

Posted by: MrScribbler at August 23, 2015 07:00 AM (SNBrO)

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As your scandinavian socialdemocratic troll, I think its marvelous that Donald Trump may actually get Bernie Sanders elected as president.

Posted by: fnord at August 23, 2015 07:04 AM (kW2Ka)

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29 Also.. I have to wonder, though, given that the Russkies are now going to sell the S300 surface to air missile system, if Israel will be forced to bomb the shit out of all of Iran's known nuclear facilities before those missiles are in place.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2015 06:59 AM (UpGcq)

Israel is capable of some amazing things. Off the top of my head, the Soviets had given Egypt their latest radar system, so the Mossad/Sayeret Matkal sent a team across the border, took out the guards, dismantled the station and then sent it back to Israel. They also commandeered some very advanced attack boats in a French port that were destined for the Egyptian Navy.

Not saying they can do this, but who knows? I'd say it is a fair bet that as we speak, Israel will ramp up it's clandestine activity to a level just short of open war, and maintain it as long as possible to try and a) slow Iran down until January 2017 and b) prepare the battlespace ahead of any attack.

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The drudge link to WND is a pretty good story, and while trying to explain why
kelley lost to Trump, it also inadvertently shows why everyone running will lose to Trump. He is fighting by different rules, and they aren't allowed to:

"Yet, when set against the unadulterated masculine intellectual powers and cunning of Donald Trump, it was not a fair fight. She was overpowered to the point of speechlessness and had to take a 10-day vacation to lick her wounds. When the ladies operate within a protective penumbra of political correctness in a highly feminized culture of girly men, it is pretty easy to win intellectual pillow fights.""

Posted by: AC at August 23, 2015 07:09 AM (TzeLs)

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38 We can just send two angry black women to go take the presidency from him.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 23, 2015 07:07 AM (+SFzp)

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"Also.. I have to wonder, though, given that the Russkies are now going
to sell the S300 surface to air missile system, if Israel will be forced
to bomb the shit out of all of Iran's known nuclear facilities before
those missiles are in place."

Nah. There is such a concept called operational capacity, at the moment only the powers have that kind of munition and airspace-presence possibility. Israel can not take out the Iranian nuclear program through airpresence. The US, China and possibly Russia could.

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I am reading a very long and excellent biography of Calvin Coolidge by Amity Shales and I have decided Coolidge was one of our greatest and most underrated Presidents. He had the tragedy of having his son die while he was in office. After playing tennis Calvin got a blister on his foot which turned into sepsis and killed him a week later. Calvin Coolidge had been a church goer but his faith seemed to become increasingly important to him after Calvin's death. The biographer notes:

Protecting the space that faith enjoyed in American culture, the realm of the spiritual seemed to him especially. In those early days after Calvin's death he had refused many appointments, but had agreed to talk to a group of Boy Scouts in a telephone hookup. "It is hard to se4e how a great man can be an atheist," Coolidge told the boys. "We need to feel behind us is intelligence and love." Now as he was preparing a speech for the dedication of a statue of a Methodist Bishop, Francis Asbury: In that speech he wanted to his conviction that government's power, since the days of Jonathan Edwards, had derived from religion and not the other way around.

(And JTR posting, this is no reflection of anyone here who is an Atheist. I just think in the case of Coolidge his faith informed his life. Barack Obama has no God but himself, I think. Bernie Sanders' god seems to be the socialist state. Obama is hardly a great man. I don't know about Sanders but his political "theology" is scary. Neither of them want religion to be part of public life as far as I can tell.

Maybe we should asking the Presidents who were great men and who believed in God to pray for us and for our nation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2015 07:18 AM (OSs/l)

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Not to be bastard, but several of my family and many of my friends are military, and went embedded with muslim troops who fought and died beside them in Afghanistan and Iraq. I hope the "muzzie" thing dies very fast, its still a battle between modernity and the old ways, not a clash of civilizations and WW3.

Posted by: fnord at August 23, 2015 07:19 AM (kW2Ka)

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A perfect demoralizing read see Scott Powell's article at American Thinker

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Sorry about the long post; I didn't know if I'd get back for the book thread. :^) It's going to be a potentially stressful day after church with a church meeting. We need answers for a very problematic situation. Your prayers for our church, is members and its pastoral leadership would be appreciated very much.

Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2015 07:21 AM (OSs/l)

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Grand Moff Tarkin. Is that like some sort of, for lack of a better word, "homage" to the Grand Mufti

Basically, a man (who looks to be a good man) disagrees with insane femi's, and they take him to court for harassment. They are the ones harassing him in my opinion. He said nothing wrong. He wasn't mean. He didn't harass. They just didn't like someone disagreeing with them.

This should never have even gone to court. If only the court turns this around on the fem's and they end up paying. He lost his job over this.

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How pathetic that those particular transgenders are such weenies that they can't laugh at a bunch of men dressing up as women for a race to raise money for a hospice for children with cancer!!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2015 07:32 AM (OSs/l)

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66 This should never have even gone to court. If only the court turns this around on the fem's and they end up paying. He lost his job over this.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 23, 2015 07:28 AM (qCMvj)

This is the country that has "human rights commissions." You should look up the Ezra Levant/Mark Steyn/Maclean's Magazine incident.

I've always like wondering aloud of they day of the month is involved in this anger.

When I regain consciousness, she's not mad anymore.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at August 23, 2015 07:39 AM (+SFzp)

80This is the country that has "human rights commissions." You should look up the Ezra Levant/Mark Steyn/Maclean's Magazine incident.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2015 07:32 AM (St6BJ)

I do know about it. Steyn explains it a lot. And I saw a video of Ezra secretly(?) recording his sessions with them. The commission felt very fascist. It was creepy. They have an agenda, and it is NOT human rights. It is stifling them.

My wife (wild one when we were younger) names Dare. On most nights about one (we both were bar/restaurant people so every night was party night) when she was whooofukinhooooo, I'd say "honey, I'm going to need you to be a little less Dare right now." She liked that.

What's remarkable is how the political and cultural center of American values has collapsed in the last two and a half decades with the Democratic Party having moved dramatically to the left. Recently, Democratic National Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not explain the difference between the modern Democratic Party platform and that of socialism, while at the same time gushing over the prospect of Socialist Bernie Sanders having a prominent place at the 2016 Democratic Party convention.

If people today could somehow be transported back to the time of Harry Truman and Jack Kennedy, they would swear those standard bearers were Republicans with little in common with today's Democratic Party.

This is what I think Trump is resonating. I repeat myself, but he acts like an old NY Democrat, but the Democrats are so far left, he seems conservative in some aspects.

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83, or if you and said wife have a girlfriend and their names are very similar in sound DO NOT CALL YOUR WIFE THE GIRLFRIENDS NAME when it's just you two alone in the heat of passion. I don't care how much she digs the girlfriend, it's not a good thing to do.

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It isn't just Trump's stance on illegals and immigration in general... This has become a world wide concern.

IMMIGRATION BACKLASH: Sweden's nationalists lead polls for first time.

...

The Sweden Democrats, with roots in the country's most radical extreme right, entered parliament in 2010 with the ambition of curbing Sweden's immigration and refugee policy.

Insty says:

If the establishment won't give the people what they want, then "radical extreme" people will arise to do so.

As an aside, Coulter was right on with her new book. How does she do it? Each of her books hits the issue of the times right on target.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 23, 2015 07:52 AM (qCMvj)

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Lived in England for two years while in the military long ago so have lots of memories. I wonder as Muzzies are invading the same as any ancient force only being invited in, given handouts how soon they are the 51% ruling the country.

Posted by: Skip at August 23, 2015 07:53 AM (PJ1RU)

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It's all about money-for-noting and I don't mean making music. Charities, non-profits, and Government Agencies are the growth businesses of today. A non-profit makes a living selling dead babies that Government Agencies pay them to kill. Makes "...transgender charity claimed the dress code constituted a hate crime..." look like small potatoes even though they both have the same roots. See three-blind-mice. Elect farmers wife who has a carving knife President.

An influential Saudi former military commander on making common cause with Israel and warming toward Russia as the U.S. backs away.

...

"The main project between me and Dore Gold is to bring peace between Arab countries and Israel," he says. "This is personal, but my government knows about the project. My government isn't against it, because we need peace. For that reason, I found Dore Gold. He likes his country. I like my country. We need to profit from each other." Jerusalem and Riyadh, he says, are two powers that "don't want trouble in the region."

Initially, the focus was on the Palestinian question. "We didn't talk much about Iran at first," Gen. Eshki recalls, "but I found that our idea and their idea was close together against Iran. We don't like Iran to destabilize the area. We don't like for Iran to attack Israel and destroy Israel. And we also don't like for Israel to attack Iran and destroy Iran. This is my idea. He has another idea. But we are together."

For Israel, the immediate Iranian-caused headache is Hezbollah, the Lebanese-Shiite terror outfit that points tens of thousands of missiles at the Jewish state. Gen. Eshki recalls once asking Mr. Gold, " 'When you attack Hezbollah, does Iran interfere?' He answered, 'No.' " A follow-up: "If you attack Iran, will Hezbollah support Iran?" The Israeli answered: "Yes." Gen. Eshki's conclusion: "Israel is thinking first of all to destroy Hezbollah, to solve the problem with Hezbollah. After that they can attack Iran."

http://on.wsj.com/1h5FDOy

first I heard that

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 23, 2015 08:05 AM (qCMvj)

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"The Sweden Democrats, with roots in the country's most radical extreme right"

The Swedes have an "extreme right"? As in "right" or is it just a group with only 95 percent far leftist crap?

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The worm turned in 2008...now anything is possible. When a rank amateur like Obozo can become President without any serious research into his background, education and moral beliefs simply because he is high yellow and claims to be black well Trump is a shoo-in this time around with the kinda money he has to buy all the votes he needs and the dumb masses love all that bling and circus.

_____
Appropriate to the discussion of dealing with the angry wife (comic panel):
http://bit.ly/so-not-funny

Morning, Glories!

Thunder through the night
Makes my dog uptight

_____
The long-running comic panel Reverend Fun has ended its run. First panel was November, 1997. (Almost as long as Mindful Webworks has been around.) Not an easy gig, religious humor. There were some good ones. So long, Reverend Fun, and God bless you.
http://www.reverendfun.com

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30 What galls me most is that we have so cracked this code but that they are either a) unaware or worse b) know it and do this shit anyway. No reason really to do the latter since we are powerless to stop them anyway.

I don't see it quite that way. We *have* cracked the code and our eyes are open now. An awful lot of people relize the GOPe is basically allied with the Dems on many issues.

Some people, like Schlichter, are advocating conservatives take over the GOP the way progtards did the Dems. Others are content to simply watch it burn. Either way, I believe (and hope) we're hearing the death rattle of the GOPe in this election.

Many of us simply refuse to support Bush or Rubio. Right now, Trump's 20-ish percent in the polls is more of a protest vote than enthusiastic pro-Trump voters, but the longer he holds on and avoids setting himself on fire, the more likely his numbers will go up and voters will begin to identify with him. The GOP will be forced to choose between living with Trump *and his anti-GOPe supporters* or facing a beating at the polls unlike any they've seen in the last 40 years.

Either way, we win. If Trump wins, we get immigration control and the GOPe is beaten. If there's no Trump and the GOPe loses like the Dems did in 1984, the GOPe is burned to the ground and Allen can go scatter the stones, and you can bring the kosher salt, JJ. This is not the time to go wobbly.

Nah. That's just when it became visible. The turning happened long ago.

#105,
Exactly so.

Posted by: anon a mouse at August 23, 2015 08:13 AM (C9pBZ)

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Still fascinates me that the "elites" don't see that a primary reason they are allowed to retain their positions as "elites" is that we are still pretty much a civil society adhering to a common sense framework of laws, Firthermore, it should be clear to them that such a framework is maintained only if a substantial majority of the population accepts these laws as valid and as being part of a common culture where you know what to expect from your fellow citizens residents.

To paraphrase a Reagan thought, mankind is inherently tribal, the question is which tribe are they going to want to belong to. It used to be that we had no problem with immigrants coming to this country because they wanted to belong to "our" tribe and would assimilate to do so. Now, the "elites" have foisted "illegal" and H1B immigration upon us where the immigrants not only do not want to join our tribe, they despise our tribe, and expect us to accept their tribal practices, languages, and laws and customs.

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Government Agencies are importing illegals to try to make up for shortfall due to abortion business. They don't realize that North America has winters and that marginalizing productive people isn't conducive to good wealth. I expect a mass migration south. People going to where the weather suits their clothes.

I've beaten this horse until Elmer's refused it, but it's still true: the "DC" set believes that all immigration is a good and wonderful thing to be marvelled at. It's really that simple. Even suggest a modest limit on "illegal" at an Arlington get together will cause vapors...

That's not new, btw, nor is it limited to immigration - FedBeast now has it's claws in every field.

GOP CONSULTANT LAYS OUT NEW GENIUS PLAN TO TAKE DOWN TRUMP: 'HOW BRUTUS KILLED CAESAR,' GET CLOSE THEN 'SHIV HIM IN THE RIBS'

...

From there, the conversation turned to how Castellanos thinks Trump might be taken down---and who might do it. He said:

Well you have two angles to look at that---he's sitting on a bunch of people down there on the conservative side. He's sitting on Sen. Ted Cruz.

I doubt Ben Carson is going to do anything about that, but at some point Ted Cruz is going to wake and figure 'this race is going to end and I'm never going to catch up.' Then on the other side, the establishment side, you can wait a little longer. Whether it's a Carly Fiorina or a Jeb Bush or a Sen. Marco Rubio, don't stand in front of the tsunami right now and just coalesce--become a better, stronger candidate so you can be in the lead when everyone turns not to Trump but to the anti-Trump.

video at link

http://bit.ly/1hT5OZw

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 23, 2015 08:26 AM (qCMvj)

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The Texas variant of that joke is the Rodeo Fuck. You have to hang on for eight seconds after calling the wife by her sister's name.

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"If countries like France won't allow the concealed carry of firearms, maybe the concealed carry of Americans is the next best way to stop would-be mass shooters."
-Will S's Sunny Side Blog
http://bit.ly/cc-usa

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"...instead of just buying gloves..." It's amazing to me that we now live in a world where someone can not imagine not having the money to buy gloves. In my lifetime no less. Lets pray that it is always so and that we move on to issues that don't involve cold callused hands caused by lack. I can tell you that gloves are not as satisfying as a warm sunny day.

Making a dent in illegal (and "legal") immigration is just a small step, but at least it is a small step. I am no longer sure that much of this can be unwound!

As an example, we now have more muz and mosques in this country than we did on 9 September 2001. The real clue that we have passed the tipping point will be when the signs at Home Depot are in Spanish, Arabic, and English (and in that order)

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 23, 2015 08:31 AM (ftVQq)

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122 WeirdDave's disappeared post on Noses and Faces has made it to his blog.
http://bit.ly/noses-faces
Posted by: mindful webworker - over there now at August 23, 2015 08:25 AM (IlQaj)

Why would that get disappeared?! And one of the comments suggests Vic is banned here; don't know if that's a guess or if there's solid intel behind it.

Posted by: Agent J at August 23, 2015 08:33 AM (ueOgE)

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Posted by: mindful webworker - over there now at August 23, 2015 08:25 AM (IlQaj)

Dayum, did Ace banhammer the Dave again?

If so, I don't like this pattern!

Posted by: Hrothgar at August 23, 2015 08:36 AM (ftVQq)

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I tried some of that spray on loin gird and it took three weeks for it to wear off. Never again.

135Why would that get disappeared?! And one of the
comments suggests Vic is banned here; don't know if that's a guess or if
there's solid intel behind it.

Posted by: Agent J at August 23, 2015 08:33 AM

We'll never know for sure, in either case. Won't stop commenters from speculating, or ginning up wild rumors.

I hope Vic is just rocking-chair-ing it for a while. He puts in considerable time on his news broadcasts -- more time, possibly, than some other posters expend on their "think pieces" -- and seems like the last person who would get banned here.

If the HQ traded Vic to Sefton for a Blogger to Be Named Later, cut.jib.newsletter would see a spike in viewership of Drudge-y proportions!

Not impossible to imagine, but I'd be inclined to doubt it, v. other possibilities.

Hope it's something simple like my connection problems. I've had problems lately posting via AT&T. Usually re-setting the IP does it, sometimes takes two tries. (Suppose I should keep a log of seemingly-banned IPs for the cobs to check, but I'm usually in too big a hurry just to get connected.) I don't think I've been banned. Yet.

153If he would step up to the plate the way Trump has done I think he would cinch this up.

Posted by: Sambo at August 23, 2015 08:46 AM

Maybe, if his Senate "career" so far didn't show him to be a lazy, standard-issue do-nothing hack politician.

For every instance when he has come across as a Hero (the famous filibuster is the only one I can think of, but there may have been others) there are times when he has hit Zero status (TPP, Corker, the "Mitch lied to meeeee!" meltdown).

If he didn't have that exotic Identity Politics thing going for him, Cruz would be shufflin' papers in a law office back in Texas.

Republicans hoping to beat Hillary Clinton aren't going to be bailed out by some mythical criminal prosecution in a case where there is clearly no evidence of any kind of crime. Perhaps they should spend a bit more time developing polices that might appeal to middle class Americans.

159The real clue that we have passed the tipping point will be when the signs at Home Depot are in Spanish, Arabic, and English (and in that order)Posted by: Hrothgar

Back when I took Arabic language courses at UGA, a casual conversation with one of the Arabic program's professors strayed from issues of political and religious import toward matters of international marketing. "The Home Depot," he informed me, translated into Arabic, is pronounced Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda literally means "Home Base." And without a more appropriate translation for the word "depot," Al-Qaeda suddenly becomes more than just a threat to the free world ... it's also America's number one Do-It-Yourself warehouse!

www.fightboredom.net/2008_06_01_archive.html

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 23, 2015 08:57 AM (kdS6q)

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This post should've included the "girding your loins" graphic from the ONT weeks back.

Of course, that would've required Krak to do some digging on a Sunday morning.

163"The Home Depot," he informed me, translated into
Arabic, is pronounced Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda literally means "Home Base."
And without a more appropriate translation for the word "depot,"
Al-Qaeda suddenly becomes more than just a threat to the free world ...
it's also America's number one Do-It-Yourself warehouse! Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 23, 2015 08:57 AM

For a time, teh Depot had a rival called "Home Base." Would have confused the hell out of Arabic-speakers, I bet.

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Oh hell, there was a woman in a niqab (headscarf with lower-face veil) at my exurban town park the other day. Was chasing around about eight kids while her husband sat in a chair glaring at the infidels.

I guess they're done clustering in the city and moving out to the cornfields. Shorter drive to the terrorist-affiliated mosque in Plainfield.

Well, to each his own, I suppose. Politics will never done out in the open for everyone to see every aspect of every deal. And we all rely too much on other people to interpret things for us and tell us what they say (like TPP). Even the elected congressmen and senators themselves don't read the bills.

So there will never be a candidate who I don't have anything against. But I can live with Cruz.

Posted by: Sambo at August 23, 2015 09:05 AM (0Txm0)

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Had just enough time to comment before the open thread got yanked. Dang this place can be weird.

Sayonara, Ace, 'rons and 'ronettes. I have respect bordering on awe for Ace's ability to maintain this little vortex in the maelstrom, but my own chaotic path leads elsewhere.

As a nerd and a geek who never actually saw the elephant, it may suit me better -- I'm always a little abashed, here. May God cherish and protect our NCOs, and arrange for a good one to be standing armed behind each zampolit when That Day inevitably comes.

Culture, it is said, is upstream of politics. I am become a vile faceless minion. The long counter-march is well begun.